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in old armor, skirts of mor, skirts of steel plates, flexible and overlapping, atoverlapping, attached to the front and back pieces of hack pieces of the cuirass, and hanging over the thighs. over the thighs.
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a descendant of Cain, in nt of Cain, in the 5th generation, and ancestor of a ancestor of o numerous posterity distinguished for stinguished for skill in agriculture, music, and several sic, and several part of mechanical arts. He is the first polygathe first polygamist on record. Another Lamech, son of Lamech, son of Methuselah, and father of Noah, lived of Noah, lived 777 years, and died only five years before the flood (Gen. v. 25-31). LAMELLIBRANCHIATA (-brang- MA(brang ki-ätä), a division of the higher mol- The higher mol lusca, represented by the oysters, mussels, cockles, etc. -kor'ni-ä), or
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Consisting of thin or extended plates, layers, or scales; distributed or disposed in thin, filmy processes. Lampblack consists of a very fine description of infinitely divided charcoal. It is commonly made by heating in an iron vessel vegetable matters rich in carbon, including tar and resins, the vapors of which are burnt in a current of air insufficient for complete combustion; consequently the hydrogen burns away and leaves the carbon behind in a finely divided condition on the walls of the chamber, which are hung with coarse cloths. Lampblack thus obtained invariably contains more or less unburnt resinous or fatty matters. When it is required to obtain a small quantity of very fine lampblack, it may be done by holding a cold plate over a common gas flame until sufficient has been deposited. See CARBON; CHARCOAL.
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a tribe or'uên), a tribe of beetles having short antennæ termi- Baleanse terminated by a lamellated club-i. e., a club he, a elab composed of lamellæ or little platesittie platesformed by the expansion on one side of on one side of the three apical joints. The mentum is solid and horny; the legs are long, and have spines and tooth-like projections on the fore ones, enabling them to dig with facility. There are six small legs attached to the thoracic segments. Some live in the ground, feeding on the roots of plants. They are all herbivorous. Among them are some of the most splendid beetles existing. More than 7,000 species are known. They are divided into two families: Scarabeidæ and tangles Lucanidæ. these
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a a the family of swimming birds. The family comprises the ducks, geese, swans, flammeter ingoes, etc. go
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HUGUES FÉLICITÉ ROBERT DE (lä-muh-nā'), a French writer; born in St. Malo, June 19, 1782. He was ordained priest in 1817. The same year appeared the first volume of his "Essay upon Indifference in the Matter of Religion" (1807-1820). He developed his views further in "Religion Considered in its Relation to the Civil and Political Order" (1825) and "Progress of the Revolution and of the War against the Church" (1829). By degrees he became the critic of Church policy, and his journal "L'Avenir" (The Future) was condemned by the Pope. Lamennais bowed to Rome's decree; but after a year was published his "Words of a Believer" (1834), in which he repudiates all authority of popes and bishops. It was followed by "The Book of the People" (1837), and "The Past and the Future of the People" (1842), in the same tone. He wrote also: "Sketch of a Philosophy" (3 vols. 1841); "Religion"; and translated the Gospels, accompanying the text with notes. He died in Paris, Feb. 27, 1854.
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one of the shorter books of the Old Testament. No author's name is attached to it in the Hebrew Bible, where it is simply designated from its first two words, ekhah="O how." The Septuagint translators called it Threnoi Ieremiou = "Dirges or Lamentations of Jeremiah." Universal tradition attributes it to him, and the style is that of his acknowledged prophecies. The theme is the destruction and desolation of Jerusalem, and the slaughter of many of its inhabitants, with the misery of the survivors. It is chanted in part of the Jewish ritual on the 9th of Ab, in our month of July.
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a city in Greece, located near the head of the gulf of Lamia and not far distant from the famous pass of Thermopylæ. The modern town cone mosques and gartains some picturesque mosques and gardens. The most important industry is portant industry is Ms. Pop. approxithe raising of camels. Pop. approximately, 9,000. ), a genus of al-
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a genus of alof the family La gals, the typical one of the family Laminaridæ, or the order Laminariacex. der Laminariaceæ. In place of leaves there is a plane rib- Here is a plane ribless expa expansion. The stem is either naked stem is either naked stalks of young stalks of fringed. The or young saccharina, called L. digitata and L. saccharina, called tangles, are eaten. The first of The first of are most valued of these with L. bulbosa are most valued of anufacture. L. sacthe genus for kelp manufacture. L. saccharina is used as an imperfect hygroan imperfect hygrometer. It is administered in India in mistered in India in syphilis. So are L. goiter, scrofula, and syphilis. So are L. bracteata and the large Australian speange Australian species, L. potatorum.
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water, sewer, or IFE, water, sewer, or gas pipe made of thicknesses of veneer Thicknesses of veneer or scale board successively wrapped to essively wrapped to obtain thickness and strength. Each And strength. Each layer is thoroughly saturated with assaturated with asphalt, and the grain of alternate layers of alterneto layers passes in transverse directions, so as to directions, to as to secure an intimate bond and a line of hond and a line of resistance to disruption in any direction, on in any direction, lengthwise, oblique, or across the pipe across the pipe circumference. The veneer is someis sometimes made to alternate with fabric or fabric or an adhesive composition.
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a gold- CHINE & goldbeater's rolling-mill for reducing the infor reducing the ingot of gold to such a thickness that a a thickness that a Ish 6½ grains. The square inch will weigh 6½ grains. The ingot weighs two ounces, and is threenees, and is threebroad. The rollers quarters of an inch broad. The rollers and extend the ingot are of hard steel, and extend the ingot to a ribbon. The gold is frequently anold is frequently annealed during the process. process. the arrangement of
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